Description: Best Things Nearby:
The only excursion we embarked on was the four-wheeling trip leaving from our resort. You also learn a lot about the culture of the people by traveling into their villages, downtown, and to the beaches. The airport is a very fast and easy one because it is fairly small.
Best Things About the Resort:
The beautiful view, the sense of security and privacy, the family atmosphere, and the helpful and entertaining staff
Resort Experience:
We stayed in an all-inclusive villa. The resort was not in the middle of the city; it was in the middle of nowhere. I should start by that saying our week of weather was not great, raining, making the beach fairly ugly and not inviting. The resort was very beautiful and secluded. Our private villa was large, new, clean, and gorgeous. It was cleaned daily by housekeeping, and we had our own private pool. Everything was always sparkling clean.
The main resort, restaurants, pools, bars, and lobby were located about a 5-minute walk away. However, there was always a shuttle just a call away. There was no Jacuzzi, sauna, or whirlpool. The staff was always polite and helpful, but for best help, the RCI office was always number one. There were several different bars at the resort, one in the lobby, one at the beach, and one in the VIP world, which is not accessible to everyone.
The food and dining was not the best experience. For breakfast, our maid would come and bring a danish and fruit tray and stock our refrigerator with drinks daily. She would also cook eggs for us, which were good. The breakfast in the restaurant was usually too early for us. Lunch was good when it was available in the buffet. And dinner requires prompt reservations, as the Italian, Asian, Mexican, and seafood restaurants were extremely hard to get into. All in all, the worst part of all this was that food was not available 24 hours a day, as we were told. Lunch was very short and the snack-bar food was only open for like an hour, not all day long, as we were told. The snack-bar food was not up to par either.
The pool was great and the swim-up bar was great. The beach truly is not very nice, kind of dark and ugly, with rough sand. There is good mingling with the locals trying to survive off their businesses on the beach, and they were not too in-your-face. The entertainment was not quite as good as I had anticipated. The day activities were hardly ever participated in by many people at all, and nobody seemed to know about them. The nightly shows were outside in the "amphitheater" and pretty good and always good for a laugh. However, by 10:30pm, after the shows, the nightlife is dead. The bar is open late and there are usually a total of a few 30-year-olds sitting there, but no dancing occurs. Basically, all in all, I would have chosen a different resort for our needs, because the teens wanted more nightlife and more teenagers to hang out with. It is not at all a bad place; it is simply more of a resort for adults going to relax.
- Unit Type: 3 Bedroom
- Activities: Poor
- Amenities: Good
- Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
- Family Friendliness: Good
- Service: Fair
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